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Posted on 10/2/15 at 12:30 pm to Superior Pariah
The middle class is in terrible shape. Your smartphone is a distraction. It's not there because we're doing better, just computer technology has gotten better.
But hell we were all supposed to be the Jetsons by now.
But hell we were all supposed to be the Jetsons by now.
This post was edited on 10/2/15 at 12:31 pm
Posted on 10/2/15 at 12:31 pm to genro
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man could work a regular factory job and live a nice middle class life while his wife stayed home. Communities were tight knit and people didn't lock their doors.
Unions were great for the working man
Posted on 10/2/15 at 12:31 pm to genro
I couldnt imagine living without my cell phone... 
Posted on 10/2/15 at 12:33 pm to LSU_Saints_Hornets
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I think the majority of people would rather live during the current time period rather than the 1950's.
Because the majority living in the 50's are dead or old.
Posted on 10/2/15 at 12:42 pm to Buckeye Backer
I really wouldn't miss cell phones much but it would be hard to give up the internet.
No, I don't want to go back to the 50's. Standards of living were much lower (houses were tiny for one thing), the cold war was on and a hot war was in Korea, there have been a lot of health advances, travel is much easier now, television was still black and white with poor image quality and limited programming, 60's and 70's music still hadn't happened, the sexual revolution hadn't happened...
No, I don't want to go back to the 50's. Standards of living were much lower (houses were tiny for one thing), the cold war was on and a hot war was in Korea, there have been a lot of health advances, travel is much easier now, television was still black and white with poor image quality and limited programming, 60's and 70's music still hadn't happened, the sexual revolution hadn't happened...
Posted on 10/2/15 at 12:44 pm to dnm3305
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Fake Tits = pampered/entitled insecure society = kids getting participation trophies = Obama getting elected = twice
"You are in more dire need of a blow job than any white man in history." -Robin Williams, Good Morning Vietnam, 1987.
Posted on 10/2/15 at 12:46 pm to Crawdaddy
sucked to be black in the south, just sayn
Posted on 10/2/15 at 12:48 pm to BabyTac
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But yes, I'd rather the 50s than today. Chivalry meant something, childhood innocence still existed, and people respected values, family, and their communities.
Emmitt Till would disagree with you.
Posted on 10/2/15 at 12:50 pm to genro
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Not me. We sold our soul.
Agreed, we're not virtuous or courageous like we used to be.
Just ask black people who lived in the south during the 50s.
Posted on 10/2/15 at 12:50 pm to LSUinMA
Northfield is a nice place 
Posted on 10/2/15 at 12:53 pm to biglego
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People would shite without HD TV
HD? In the 1950s there was not only no HD, there was no cable/satellite, only 3-4 stations, TV blacked out at midnight, everything was broadcast in black and white, but worst of all, there was no remote control for the TV.
Posted on 10/2/15 at 12:56 pm to Crawdaddy
It was violent and harsh. No it wasn't a better time
Posted on 10/2/15 at 12:57 pm to RDRGeaux09
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Sure the 1950's were great... If u were a white guy. Everyone apparently doesn't matter
Posted on 10/2/15 at 12:57 pm to Pettifogger
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Agreed, we're not virtuous or courageous like we used to be.
Just ask black people who lived in the south during the 50s.
The funny thing is most blacks are probably more disgruntled and less satisfied today than they were then.
You can thank liberal policies which have destroyed the black family unit and any sense of self-respect and responsibility in that community.
Posted on 10/2/15 at 12:58 pm to Crawdaddy
Back then they didn't have internet pron or shaved pussies. Only time a woman got that beaver skinned was when she had a baby.
Posted on 10/2/15 at 1:01 pm to BabyTac
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I think the 90s were the best time to be alive. Cell phones and social media has really began to ruin society as a whole in so many ways.
The 90s really were pretty great, and I say that as someone who experienced them as a kid/teenager.
Healthcare costs weren't exorbitant like they are now, the price of goods was decently low, we had the internet but back then it was used for education and good, we had cellular mobility but it wasn't the attention-sucker like it is now, kids had to go outside to play (though it did see the dawn of the video game as addiction age), the economy was better, and we had won the Cold War and were enjoying pre-9/11 peace.
My mother raised my brother and me as a single working mother on a teacher's income and we managed to get by just fine. She's the first to admit that she doesn't know how she would've made ends meet under current economic conditions as a single mother with two kids.
Posted on 10/2/15 at 1:04 pm to ManBearTiger
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The funny thing is most blacks are probably more disgruntled and less satisfied today than they were then.
You can thank liberal policies which have destroyed the black family unit and any sense of self-respect and responsibility in that community.
Maybe. But I'm not going to pretend we acted ethically or morally toward black people in the 50s. Some did, obviously, but we tend to overlook that rather big black eye in wishing for the past.
Posted on 10/2/15 at 1:05 pm to Crawdaddy
At least people in the 1950s didn't start stupid troll threads like this.
Posted on 10/2/15 at 1:08 pm to genro
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Communities were tight knit and people didn't lock their doors.
Meh, this tends to be the point where people conflate hyper-nostalgia with fact.
Per the FBI, violet crime rates today have dropped to levels equal to or below those of the 1950s:
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